Norwich Monuments and Memorials  

Monuments and memorials 00 [ South African War memorial (erected in Castle Meadow 1903), Nelson (erected in Market Place 1852 - moved to The Close 1856), Wellington (erected in Market Place 1854 - moved to The Close 1937) ]

• Castle Meadow South African war memorial [2140] 1938-03-09
• Close The Lord Nelson statue [2467] 1938-06-18
• Close The Lord Nelson statue [7485] 1997-09-13
• Market Place Duke of Wellington statue [B263] 1932-05-00
• Close The Duke of Wellington statue [2154] 1938-03-12
• Close The Duke of Wellington statue [7484] 1997-09-13

Monuments and memorials 01 [ Cenotaph (erected at east end of Guildhall 1927 - moved to front of City Hall September 1938), Sir Thomas Browne (erected in Haymarket 19th October 1905), Norwich Cemetery Military memorial, Great War memorial (Eaton parish - Newmarket Road) ]

• Market Place City Hall Cenotaph [2845] 1938-11-05
• Market Place Guildhall Cenotaph [B069] 1931-08-03
• Haymarket Thomas Browne statue [2369] 1938-05-05
• Earlham Rd Cemetery military memorial [B319] 1932-06-12
• Market Place Guildhall Cenotaph at night [0321] 1934-11-26
• Newmarket Rd Eaton Great War memorial [B535] 1933-04-14

Monuments and memorials 02 [ Hebrew Cemetery Talbot Square, “Charity” (bronze statue by J.E.Boehm originally the centrepiece of a drinking fountain at Newmarket-Ipswich Road junction - now in adjacent grounds of ex-N.&N.Hospital), Gildencroft (Society of Friends’ burial ground), Edith Cavell monument (Tombland - moved 1993), Edith Cavell grave (Life’s Green The Close) ]

• Oak St Talbot Square Hebrew cemetery [1514] 1937-03-26
• St Stephen's Rd N and N Hospital Charity [6324] 1985-05-31
• Gildencroft Friends' burial ground [6220] 1981-08-04
• Tombland Edith Cavell monument [4012] 1951-06-29
• Close The Edith Cavell grave [6992] 1993-05-24
• Tombland Edith Cavell monument resited [6961] 1993-03-28

Oak Street: the Jewish Cemetery

Monuments and memorials 03 [ Rosary Cemetery: Monument to John Barker (killed at Cattlemarket 1897 - while helping to set up Tombland fair one of his wagons ran backwards and crushed him to death), Mausoleum to Dr Emanuel Cooper (mid-19c.), Norwich Cemetery: First stone (1855), Memorial to Soldiers dying at Norwich Barracks (unveiled by Lord Waveney 17th October 1878), “The Spirit of the Army” (figure on finial of terracotta named by designer John Bell) ]

• Rosary Rd Cemetery John Barker monument [7474] 1997-08-10
• Rosary Rd Cemetery Emanuel Cooper mausoleum [7473] 1997-08-10
• Earlham Rd Cemetery first stone J Baldry [B534] 1933-04-14
• Rosary Rd Cemetery John Barker bust [7487] 1997-09-14
• Earlham Rd Cemetery barrack soldiers dying [B318] 1932-06-11
• Earlham Rd Cemetery Spirit of the Army [7481] 1997-09-10
• Earlham Rd Cemetery Garden of Remembrance [7715] 1999-11-27 (new)
• Bowthorpe Rd Jewish Cemetery [7892] 2002-07-14 (new)

Monuments and memorials 04 [ Norwich Union Surrey Street statues of William Talbot (Bishop of Oxford and founder of the Amicable Society) and Sir Samuel Bignold (Secretary of the N.U.Fire Office 1854-57), Norwich Union Surrey Street bronze sculpture of Gaea (Earth Mother - sculptor Colin Miller 1990), Rail Station bronze bust of Sir Samuel Morton Peto (1808-1889 - Baptist, Contractor, Politician and Philanthropist), Norfolk and Norwich Hospital bronze plaque to William Fellowes of Shotesham (founder of N.&N.Hospital in 1771) with tablet commemorating 1927 opening of new outpatients department (in honour of those who died in the Great War) ]

• Surrey St Norwich Union Gaea bronze [7376] 1996-07-27
• Thorpe Rd station Sir Morton Peto bust [7614] 1999-03-13
• St Stephen's Rd William Fellowes plaque [7592] 1998-10-02
• Surrey St Norwich Union William Talbot [7359] 1996-07-07
• Surrey St Norwich Union Samuel Bignold [7360] 1996-07-07

Monuments and memorials 05 [ Amelia Opie statue Opie Street (in Quaker garb - carved in wood by Z.Leon and then cast in artificial stone) ]

• Opie St Amelia Opie statue [7694] 1999-10-13
• Close The Mother and Child sculpture [7773] 2000-10-01 (new)
• Close The Upper Square bronze sculpture [7778] 2000-10-15 (new)
• Malthouse Rd car park bomb sculpture [7736] 2000-03-01 (new)

Text and photographs Copyright © G.A.F.Plunkett 2004

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